Combined bath-tub seat and bidet.



Patented Dec. ll, I900. s. n. BAKER.

COMBINED BATH TUB SEAT AND BIDET.

. (Application filed Sept. 17, 1900.;

(no Model.)

STATES r 'rn it tries.

STEPHEN D. BAKER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PECK BROS.& COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED BATH-TUB SEAT AND BIDET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 663,826, dated December11, 900- Application filed $eptem'ber 1'7, 1900. Serial No. 30,369. Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN D. BAKER, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in aCombined Bath-Tub Seat and Bidet; and I do hereby declare the following,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the figuresof reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in

Figure l,a perspective view of my improved device; Fig. 2, a view invertical transverse section of a bath-tub provided with my device.

My invention relates to animproved combined bath-tub seat and bidet, theobject being to produce a simple and convenient bathtub accessory.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain details ofconstruction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I employ a seat 2, which is a littleshorter than the width of an ordinary bath-tub and provided at each endwith swinging hooks 3, by means of which it is suspended in thebath-tub. These hooks may be of any approved construction and may beapplied to the seat in any approved manner.

As shown, the seat is slightly tapered at its ends and formed with abeveled central opening 4, below which in a skeleton frame 5, secured inplace to the under face of the seat by screws 6, I locate a nozzle 7,having a short connecting-pipe 8, which is designed to receive a shorttube or pipe led to it from one of the regular cocks of the bath-tub orfrom a special cock provided for it. The said frame 5, nozzle 7, andconnection 8 constitute what I call the bidet of my improvement.

My improved seat may be used after the or dinary manner of bath-tubseats, and it may be additionally used as a bidet, whereby it becomes anextremely convenient accessory of a bathtub.

I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the preciseconstruction herein described, but hold myself at liberty to make suchdeviations therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of myinvention.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a combined batl1-tub and bidet, the combination with a seat, of meansapplied to the ends thereof for removably suspending the same in abath-tub below the edge thereof, a skeleton frame secured directly tothe lower face of the seat, a nozzle mounted in the said skeleton framebeneath the opening injthe seat, and means for connecting the saidnozzle with a source of water-supply.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN D. BAKER.

Witnesses:

J. H. SHUMWAY, LILLIAN D. KELsEY.

